Justice News

President Barack Obama Grants Pardons

WASHINGTON – Today President Barack Obama granted pardons to the following eight individuals:

Randy Eugene Dyer – Burien, Wash.

Offense: Conspiracy to import marijuana (hashish), 21 U.S.C. § 963; conspiracy to remove baggage from the custody and control of the U.S. Customs Service and convey false information concerning an attempt to damage a civil aircraft, 18 U.S.C. § 371.

Sentence: June 19, 1975; Western District of Washington; five years in prison and two years of special parole (special parole term subsequently vacated.)

Danny Alonzo Levitz - Angola, Ind.

Offense: Conspiracy, 18 U.S.C. § 371.

Sentence: Aug. 18, 1980; Northern District of Indiana; two years of probation, $400 fine.

Sentence: Aug. 15, 2001; Western District of Wisconsin; three years of probation, $5,000 fine.

Bobby Gerald Wilson - S ummerton, S.C.

Offense: Aiding and abetting the possession and sale of illegal American alligator hides (Lacey

Act), 16 U.S.C. § 3373(d)(1)(B) and 18 U.S.C. § 2.

Sentence: Dec. 19, 1985, as amended May 13, 1986; Southern District of Georgia; three and one-half months in prison, five years of probation conditioned on performance of 300 hours of community service.